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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1966)
New System Set For Fall Term J’ttKe 2 EMERALD Festival Opens Today Page 8 Vol. LXVI I DIVERSITY OF OREGON, FI GENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 19«6 No. 104 Stanford Sigma Chi's Reinstated by National By PH II. SUM AS Associate Editor Thi* Sigma Chi chapter at Stan ford has been taken off suspension by its national organization. But University President Ar thur S. Flemming says he and Oregon State President James Jensen still plan to meet with the national president of Sigma Chi to discuss racial discrimina tion policies. Sigma Chi at Stanford was placed on probation just after they pledged a Negro last fall The national claimed that the suspension came for failure to “comply with the ritual and for not keeping the house clean ” But several members of the fraternity said they were sure the suspension was for pledging a Negro. Stanford Sigma Chi President Parry Hough told the Emerald Tuesday that his chapter had been officially reinstated "as a full member of the national.” But the Negro that Sigma Chi pledged is not eligible to be a pledge because his grades slipped below standards of both the Stan ford local and the national What if he becomes eligible again? "We'll cross that bridge when the time comes,” Hough says. "He's studying hard, trying to get eligible again." His next chance will be in June when grade reports coine out again. President Flemming said he'd had no official word from the Sigma Chi national on the rein statement of the Stanford chap ter. He said he and President Jen sen had been waiting until after the national took action on the Green Appalled By Corps' Cost Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore), told a Stanford University audience Monday that the new war on pov erty programs are "siphoning off" money and talent from exist ing school and college systems which need both urgently. Mrs. Green specifically criti cized the Job Corps. She said she was "appalled” by the cost of the corps and the small num ber of persons who benefit. She said costs run to $13,000 a year per trainee and that only 18.000 of the 500,000 eligible boys and 1,615 of an equal number of girls are enrolled. Mrs. Green, who heads t h e House Education and Labor Com mittee's subcommittee on higher education and special education for the handicapped, said only 9 per cent of 3,700 high schools recently studied had any trade courses . Mrs. Green did not advocate abandoning the Job Corps pro gram. She said anti-poverty pro grams outside the schools should be instituted in some areas where there is resistance to providing adequate education and training to the disadvantaged who are in greatest need of it. Mrs. Green, who is serving her sixth term in Congress, is speak ing on issues ranging from inter national politics to student pro tests during a three-day stay on the Stanford campus. |>i!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllt>lllltllllllltlllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllll|2f Index I Editorials .page 6 Classified .page 7 | Campus Briefs.page 8 s Sports .page 4 § fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniin.iiitiiiniuiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiumiaiiiiuuuiiiijl .Sigma (.'hi .suspension, which was | scheduled to run out April 4. Now. he says that as soon as he finds out officially what the national did he and President Jensen will begin to move toward a meeting with the Sigma (.'hi national president. Flemming announced in Octo ber that he would look into the situation. The State Board of Higher Education has a policy that the University and Oregon State shall withdraw recognition fiom any fraternity or sorority whose national requires them to restrict membership on the basis of religion or race Since the Hoard made that di rective, the president of the Uni versity’s Sigma Chi chapter has always submitted a statement to the University stating that the (Continuetl on pane H) THESE ARE A FEW of the performers In the third annual Inter national Festival being held today through Sunday. Barbara Kwci (on the left) will perform a Chinese Ribbon Dance. The group of African students (on the right) will be singing West African folk songs. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights and also at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Faculty to Vote On ASUO Request University faculty members will meet at 4 p m. today to consider an ASUO Senate request to allow two students to attend faculty meetings. The two students, the ASUO President and another student well versed in the issues discussed at each faculty meeting, would be allowed to speak during the meetings if the majority of the faculty members present agreed, according to the ASUO Senate’s request. The Student-Faculty Council voted .Monday to recommend to the general faculty that the request be granted, with minor amend ments suggested. On March 30, the Faculty Senate voted to recommend to the general faculty that the ASUO Senate s request be referred to the Student-faculty Council. However. Council members concluded Monday that they have the right to initiate discussion on topics of interest to students and faculty; so they decided to make a recom mendation even before officially hearing the Faculty Senate’s report at today’s meeting. Students held a rally last Wednesday, on the dav the April faculty meeting was originally scheduled, to show that students should have a voice in the decision-making processes of the Univer sity. More than 600 students filled the area surrounding the Free Speech Platform on the Student Union Terrace. University Presi dent Arthur S. Flemming postponed the day for the faculty meeting ■ until today because he was forced to be away from the campus during the weeks preceding last Wednesday. The faculty will also consider a motion concerned with broad | casting policy at today’s meeting, which will be held in 150 Science. Photos by Fehly Studio Nothing to Lose Carter Urges Deferment Test University students have until j April 22 to obtain application i forms for Selective Service Col ; lege Qualification Test. A student must be 18 and registered with the ! Selective Service to be eligible to i take the test. Application forms can be ob tained through a week from this Friday at any draft board. The student does not have to apply to the board with which he is registered. The selective service office in Eugene is located at 1047 Wil lamette St. Office hours are from 8 am. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Application forms must be sent to Science Research Associates (SRA), Chicago, no later than i April 23. The student may indi cate his preference of time and place of exam on the application | form. Qualification tests will be giv en Saturday, May 14; Saturday, May 21; and Friday, June 3. Test ing sites include every major college and university in Oregon. SRA, upon receipt of an ap : plication, will mail direct to the I student his "ticket of admission.” This "ticket” must be presented to the exam supervisor tat a time and place designated by SRA) in order to take the test. Sprague Carter, Oregon’s Selec tive Service director, has urged all students who expect to be de ferred, to take the test. Carter believes that a student has nothing to lose in taking the test. He has said that those stu dents with good grades who do poorly on the test will probably still get deferments. Those students with low class standing stand to gain from tak ing the test, according to Univer sity Dean of Men Bob Bowlin, be cause the test will give the draft board another measurement of ability. Qualification test re sults will be used by local Se lective Service boards as an aid in determining eligibility for stu dent deferments beginning fall term. To be eligible for deferment next fall, a student must be en rolled in a full-time, four-year course. This means a student Speakers Condemn Draft By KATHV HOWARD Staff Writer Although all six of the people who spoke at the Free Speech Platform Tuesday objected to the draft, they did so for different reasons. The discussion, sponsored by the Faculty - Student Committee to Stop the War in Viet Nam, was begun by William Meyer, a ju nior in political science. He said that he opposed the I system because the "selective | service controls each student’s j education.” By requiring the University to i forward grades and class stand ings the selective service sys tem gives the University a hand in the guilt of this dirty war. Every professor when he goes to hand out grades must realize that a "D” or “F” might send a student to his death. He also attacked the test male students must now take in order to obtain student deferments. In his opinion, it discriminates against workers and humanities students because the test stress es math, science, and engineering skills. Daniel Goldrich, associate pro fessor of anthropology, said that there should be an alternative for those citizens who could not morally justify participating in the war in Viet Nam. He felt these persons could be accommo dated through legislation to serve their county doing '‘peaceful con structive work.” Joel Berreman, professor of so ciology. explored the alternatives that could be both legally and il legally used by a person who does not believe in war. Compli ance under social pressure is the easiest way and requires n o thinking or moral courage, he said. Civil disobedience is the only alternative, he concluded, (Continued on page S) I should plan to carry a minimum of 15 credit hours. To obtain a continued defer j ment: The sophomore must have com i pleted his freshman year in the upper half of the full-time male students in his class—or he must have passed the Selective Service college qualification test with a score of 70 or better. The junior applicant must suc cessfully complete the second year of college in the upper two thirds of his class—or he must have a 70 or better on the quali fication test. The senior must have com pleted his third year in the up per three-fourths of his class — or have a score of 70 or better on the test. A student may be given a de ferment long enough to complete i post-graduate study, if he com i pletes his fourth year in the up I per one-fourth of the full-time male students in his class, and if he passes the qualification test with a score of 80 or better . A student may be deferred for post-graduate study leading to a degree in various professional schools, including law, medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, osteopathy, chiropody, and phar | macy. | No deferments will be granted until classes start in September, according to Carter. This is be cause a student must be actually enrolled and in class to be eligi i ble for a deferment, Carter stated .
